At the end of April, I attended the Internet of Things (IoT) Developers Conference at the Santa Clara Convention Center....
The keynotes outlined in Part 1 of IMAPS DPC 2017 Covers Range of High-tech Topics, including EDA were obviously very...
The WeKoPa Resort near Phoenix was the venue for the latest IC packaging focused conference, IMAPS DPC 2017, which took...
On March 15, 2017, TSMC held its 23rd Symposium, based on popular request, at the Santa Clara Convention Center. I...
The 3D Architectures for Semiconductor Integration and Packaging (3D ASIP) conference is one of the biggest (if not THE biggest)...
In the past few months I have been reading a lot of depressing news about our semiconductor industry’s declining growth...
California’s Pasadena is well known for the New Year Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl. There is no doubt: It...
After a fairly long vacation it’s very hard to get back to work. That’s why I was really glad that...
Shortly before the summer break started, I attended a number of industry conferences: MEPTEC, ECTC, DAC, MEMS & Sensors, ASME...
Part 1 of my DAC 53 reporting focused on this year’s really impressive keynotes, now posted on the DAC website,...
In the past, the Design Automation Conference was known to me and many of my colleagues as the annual event that...
Every time someone asks me how my years experience I have, I tend to get evasive or try to turn...
My wife, born and raised in Hong Kong, tells me that the Chinese language uses the same word for challenge...
Earlier this week I had the opportunity to attend this year’s TSMC Symposium. Just like in many previous years, TSMC...
The Computer History Museum in Mountain View is a very impressive place to show you the enormous progress ICs and...
DesignCon 2016 at the Santa Clara Convention Center gave football fans among us an opportunity to watch the preparation work...
While the shopping malls and specialty stores in and around San Francisco were packed with people hunting for Holiday presents,...
The Great Miniaturization … SEMI/MEPTEC Conference Nov 10 & 11, continued from Part 1. Wednesday morning started with a IC...
The Great Miniaturization … SEMI/MEPTEC Conference Nov 10 & 11 After 50 years of following Moore’s Law and reaping major...
More than 25 years ago, Professor Rao Tummala founded Georgia Tech’s Package Research Center. However, his vision that advanced IC...